Examples
A: My phone just died at 20%.
B: That’s odd.
I felt like the odd one out – I had nothing in common with those people.
A: We’ve run out of eggs.
B: That’s strange! I bought a dozen only yesterday.
Vicky got me the strangest birthday gift – a half-eaten pear.
You’ve been acting weird all day. What's going on?
You have spaghetti for breakfast? That’s just so weird to me.
在听完上面的例子后,你体会到这三个形容词在非正式场合中的细微差别了吗?首先,形容词“odd”不包含负面的感情色彩,强调某个事物“不同寻常,在预期之外”。而第二个例句中,“I felt like the odd one out – I had nothing in common with those people.” 这里,常用搭配“the odd one out”的意思是“不合群的人”。